I gave up chasing quite a few years back. I would hate to guess what one would look like that I could catch now.
I meant that statement "life just doesn't get any better than this" pretty much as a "tongue in cheek" statement. Life's ok & I have no complaints.
I decided to cancel my interest in a new vette for right now & probably forever. Even with a big discount going on until the 30 Sept, cutting a check for $70K is not going to leave much if something goes wrong at work, and guaranteed something is going to go wrong at work sometime between thanksgiving and Christmas. My boss has been hammering me to train somebody or several people for auditing, and I refuse to do it. I am not about to train my own replacement. And to my knowledge, we have never laid off anybody for at least 3 years, since we were bought out & taken over. That doesn't mean that people haven't left at the company's request, that just means that they were walked out the door. That boils down to no chance for unemployment and no severance pay that would ordinarily be due to you in the case of a work force reduction. Between early retirement pay (social security) and what I have saved, I can eat with a roof over my head and a place to park the Buick, just won't have a new vette to pick up ladies with.